Software Engineer, Principal

Who you are:
Passionate about technology - Java, MySql, Postgres, Cloud technologies (AWS/Google/Oracle)
Understands the business and impact of one’s work and larger team
Hands-on and actively driving tech initiatives with individual contributors
Development to delivery and maintenance on cloud like AWS/Google/Oracle
Following engineering best practices
Understands simplicity at scale
Motivates/Guides other engineers
Automates repetitive tasks
Data-driven decisions
Believes in quality work
One who is a team player
Represent organization technically in seminars, blogs, open-source contributions
Understands value of one’s work and how it can be used in future
We require your experience to scale applications to work for increased load, we want to transform our platforms ( perl, java ) to service based architectures ( java, python ) without impacting the current business. We are taking steps to modernize our applications and are committed to invest more to overcome the current challenges.
As a Principal Engineer, we want the candidate to own a tech initiative and lead technical design activities and also execute it with the help of individual contributors in the team. He/She needs to help architects decide strategy and help define “what”, ”why” and “how”. He/She also needs to help in decision making about the tools and technologies required to implement the given problem/use case. They will also own the initiatives end to end, from development to delivery and maintenance on cloud like AWS.
As a tech enthusiast, he/she should have experience transforming monolithic architectures, a strong understanding of scaling, distributed architectures, caching, queuing, replications, data structures & algorithms, database solutions, storage, internet tools, protocols and networking. He/She should also help in defining best practices, code reviews and help the organization achieve the objectives of becoming the center of excellence in technology.